Whitechapel - The Strangest Music You Ever HeardSun, 02 Aug 2015 15:30:25 -0500http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/
Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53412#Comment_53412
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53412#Comment_53412Mon, 26 May 2008 15:57:23 -0500warrenellis--W ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53417#Comment_53417
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53417#Comment_53417Mon, 26 May 2008 16:07:30 -0500mark barter<em>The most legendary parody of the genre is the 1965 novelty record "I Want My Baby Back", written by Perry Botkin, Jr and Gil Garfield and recorded by Jimmy Cross for the Tollie label. The singer/narrator tells of a road accident similar to that in "Last Kiss," but it turns out that the couple is on the receiving end of the motorcycle crash at the climax of "Leader of the Pack." Several months after his baby's death, the singer decides that he is going to have her back "one way or the other." With realistic sound effects, he digs up his baby's grave, crawls into her coffin, and closes the lid for a muffled final chorus of "I've Got My Baby Back." The record failed to make the national top 40, but was rescued from obscurity in the 1970s by Dr. Demento, who featured it regularly on his syndicated novelty record program. </em> ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53459#Comment_53459
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53459#Comment_53459Mon, 26 May 2008 18:12:42 -0500Daniel YokomizoThe Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53468#Comment_53468
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53468#Comment_53468Mon, 26 May 2008 18:31:26 -0500acacia
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zNqSd_pHqV0 - Some of the audiovisual combinations there stood my hair on end.

Edit: I think it was a section in Part 2 that got me when I first saw this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzj3ryC1TW4 ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53473#Comment_53473
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53473#Comment_53473Mon, 26 May 2008 18:45:23 -0500Alan TysonThe strangest music I've ever heard probably doesn't at all match up to what people are going to post here - I'm not nearly as musically educated as I'd like to be. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53474#Comment_53474
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53474#Comment_53474Mon, 26 May 2008 18:47:26 -0500FractalFor sheer weirdness, STIMMUNG, by Stockhausen, is pretty out there. It's all vocal, all dissonant, and stretches the human voice very, very far. Stockhausnen based it on 50-some "magic words", which are stated in an order to be dertermined by the players, and with great emphasis and intent. Moving through all these words takes about an hour, and is overwhelmingly surreal. A small sample is here. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53480#Comment_53480
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53480#Comment_53480Mon, 26 May 2008 19:04:20 -0500agentarsenicAnyway, my friend's dad had me lay on the bed in the Genesis and listen to music played on/with human bones by Tibetan monks. HUMAN BONES. Flutes and shit. Blew my mind. Not sure I can find any, but I'll give it a try. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53488#Comment_53488
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53488#Comment_53488Mon, 26 May 2008 19:29:52 -0500AdamFor a legitimate entry to this thread I'll have to go back and study my Culture Club book. Its got an awesome section on the reeeeally out there compositions from artists like La Monte Young and so forth. One of the compositions was written and performed many decades ago, and technically the performance is still going... ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53492#Comment_53492
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53492#Comment_53492Mon, 26 May 2008 19:42:23 -0500Paul Sizer
For sheer weirdness, STIMMUNG, by Stockhausen, is pretty out there. It's all vocal, all dissonant, and stretches the human voice very, very far. Stockhausnen based it on 50-some "magic words", which are stated in an order to be dertermined by the players, and with great emphasis and intent. Moving through all these words takes about an hour, and is overwhelmingly surreal.

I've seen some other information on this composition; Stockhausen also notated this composition with the words connected and drawn in lines that showed the direction the tones where meant to go, i.e. a word would then be followed with another word (connected with a line, in the way that cursive letters are connected) placed lower on the page, indicating that word should be sung in a lower tone. He was trying to break away from the hierarchy of traditional musical note notation. This notation looked like a huge "follow the path/maze" on the page. Stockhausen was the man, that's for sure! ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53497#Comment_53497
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53497#Comment_53497Mon, 26 May 2008 20:08:18 -0500tmofeeI still say he should of taken over The J Files. Give me a reason to listen to JJJ. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53517#Comment_53517
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53517#Comment_53517Mon, 26 May 2008 21:33:25 -0500JP ValdecantosMmmm, yeah, well, I kind of got carried with my comment.Anyway, you should try this:http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=157927438http://www.myspace.com/thanatoloophttp://www.myspace.com/unfestinsagitalChilean bands. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53519#Comment_53519
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53519#Comment_53519Mon, 26 May 2008 21:40:09 -0500William Joseph Dunn
@acacia I love that film. Terrifying visuals to go with a terrifying piece of music. I saw the Quay Bros. do a talk and they showed that film and they said when they showed the film to Stockhausen he got really upset and started crying and carrying on. If I remember the story correctly, he then accused the Quay Bros. of somehow reading his mind and thought the woman in the film was his mother that was killed in the concentration camps. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53525#Comment_53525
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53525#Comment_53525Mon, 26 May 2008 21:56:51 -0500Val A Lindsay II

And then there's Fantomas...

Fantomas is overall is strange and experimental. Patton has been experimenting with vocal chords for awhile now, claiming in an interview that he didn't write lyrics for any of the Fantomas songs because words always expressed an agenda. Diamanda Galas was ahead of him in this, but between all the talent in Fantomas, specifically Buzz Osborn's guitars and tone from the Melvins and Dave Lombardo's drums from Slayer, I do find them more influential personally style-wise. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53527#Comment_53527
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53527#Comment_53527Mon, 26 May 2008 21:58:24 -0500TrotskyELP, WTF?

Somebody please explain this to me.What the hell? What happened to make this seem like a good idea?

Don't get it.

also, YMCK always scores kinda high on other people's strange-o-meter.(but, for me, it's just Tuesday.)Go YMCK, GO! ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53544#Comment_53544
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53544#Comment_53544Mon, 26 May 2008 23:04:45 -0500abkosherhttp://www.myspace.com/ppothttp://youtube.com/watch?v=m1E24hZ9WDA&feature=related and loads of other You Tube videos ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53554#Comment_53554
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53554#Comment_53554Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:27 -0500NeverWandererThis song is probly the best horror music I've ever heard because it's much more atmosphere and sound effects than music.

Oh, there's a melody... a faint, haunting string arrangement that almost sounds more like howling wind. The rest is grunts, clatters, quiet mutterings in german, a screeching buzz-saw, and exactly two shrieking, grating human screams.

This song is the sound of insanity. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53562#Comment_53562
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53562#Comment_53562Tue, 27 May 2008 00:50:56 -0500SRT
]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53569#Comment_53569
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53569#Comment_53569Tue, 27 May 2008 01:32:50 -0500Bombus HortorusThen someone from one of the houses went and yelled at them to shut up and it stopped.

The closest I've ever heard to this again is Coltrane's Meditations, which is absolutely intense, cathartic and so furious it just beats your mind into submission before calming down and letting it breath again. Probably the musical equivalent to being flung into an icy ocean and then pulled out again and wrapped in blankets. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53571#Comment_53571
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53571#Comment_53571Tue, 27 May 2008 01:42:58 -0500___________
Digital Dump" which, seemingly, was inspired by the acid house scene, only without ever listening to and acid house music. It's great. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53572#Comment_53572
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53572#Comment_53572Tue, 27 May 2008 01:44:30 -0500offtandiscordalso, tibetan hip-hop is pretty weird. no links as i only heard it while i was there. it was like they heard one hip-hop song once, and tried to recreate it with cheap electronics and asian scales. didn't quite work.

Nurse With Wound i'd consider up on the strange scale, but also very listenable and hypnotic.Nurse With Wound ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53573#Comment_53573
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53573#Comment_53573Tue, 27 May 2008 02:06:13 -0500Lazarus99Mike Silverman - That 1 Guy ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53582#Comment_53582
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53582#Comment_53582Tue, 27 May 2008 03:57:05 -0500KernowdrunkIn the middle of this was ( for me)his genuinely strange album .... 19834's Climate of Hunter , because I genuinely don't know what I'm listening to.....it veers from 1980s synthpop with slap bass , a duet with Billy Ocean through to Ligeti-esque twisted strings and industrial fear factory laments. I don't even know if I like it.

.

a crap interview on the tube , and the video to "track 3" off that album. It features a terrible guitar solo ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53586#Comment_53586
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53586#Comment_53586Tue, 27 May 2008 04:23:23 -0500___________ ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53587#Comment_53587
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53587#Comment_53587Tue, 27 May 2008 04:26:26 -0500jzellisThough there's some Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra stuff that ranks up there. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53588#Comment_53588
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53588#Comment_53588Tue, 27 May 2008 04:35:39 -0500liquidcowA lot of people single out noisy stuff or musicians that use eccentric instrumentation (both of which apply to Einsturzende Neubauten of course), but I think one of the strangest musicians I know of might be Ryoji Ikeda, who does a lot of stuff with pure electronic sounds, sine waves etc. His music sounds like it was made in a sealed lab with no access to the outside world. He sometimes uses extreme high frequencies that some listeners can't hear, or are only noticeable on their absence. He even wrote one album, Matrix, where the first disc consists of a different frequency in each speaker, so that it sounds different depending on where in the room you are, and you create your own music by moving around.

Along similar lines is Satoru Wono, who wrote Sonata For Sine Wave And White Noise, consisting of, obviously, only sine waves and white noise. He also wrote quite an interesting piece for string quartet. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53591#Comment_53591
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53591#Comment_53591Tue, 27 May 2008 04:54:29 -0500___________

and former Yello member Carlos Peron's "et" from the "Komtur" single from 83. I have often found myself saying "eh?" after and during this. It's also great. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53593#Comment_53593
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53593#Comment_53593Tue, 27 May 2008 05:09:17 -0500___________The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53599#Comment_53599
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53599#Comment_53599Tue, 27 May 2008 06:39:53 -0500Thalia ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53602#Comment_53602
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53602#Comment_53602Tue, 27 May 2008 06:53:33 -0500WilliamDanger
Laibach ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53608#Comment_53608
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53608#Comment_53608Tue, 27 May 2008 07:35:22 -0500Val A Lindsay IIKlaus Nomi is definitely worth mention. Thanks for the reminder! ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53612#Comment_53612
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53612#Comment_53612Tue, 27 May 2008 08:05:13 -0500thethingwiththestuffWait for the music..

]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53613#Comment_53613
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53613#Comment_53613Tue, 27 May 2008 08:05:21 -0500Val A Lindsay II

I have this. It's fun. :) ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53623#Comment_53623
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53623#Comment_53623Tue, 27 May 2008 08:31:59 -0500rickiep00hThere's a couple of tracks of Tool's "filler" material on their albums that I would consider strange, as well. "Faaip de Oiad" from Lateralus is a combination of a Danny Carey drum solo and the most unusual of the extremely unusual Art Bell Show call-ins. And some really well done static. And "Viginti Tres" from 10,000 Days is pretty creepy. The vocal part in it always reminds me of a really weird experience of sleep paralysis combined with what might have been lucid dreaming I had once. So maybe it's just strange to me, I don't know.

Anyway, again, Stockhausen and Fantomas. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53630#Comment_53630
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53630#Comment_53630Tue, 27 May 2008 08:52:55 -0500thethingwiththestuff
]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53670#Comment_53670
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53670#Comment_53670Tue, 27 May 2008 10:50:54 -0500Corey R
Paralysed by The Starstruck Cowboy which is one man screaming his pain at the worldHey Mark,I've got it for you, the song is by the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, the rest of his work is quite amazing too, right up there with Hasil Adkins.

The Stardust Cowboy:

Hasil: ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53685#Comment_53685
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53685#Comment_53685Tue, 27 May 2008 11:50:29 -0500MusiMPart of a documentary.

While I normally only count artists I don't listen to as weird (hence the lack of noise band list or Mike Patton/Xorn projects), I'm going to be hypocritical and list John Cage, because he's fucking weird but I still like him. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53687#Comment_53687
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53687#Comment_53687Tue, 27 May 2008 11:51:48 -0500MusiMSun Ra documentary excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sApYx27yfnw

John Cage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSulycqZH-U ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53729#Comment_53729
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53729#Comment_53729Tue, 27 May 2008 14:31:30 -0500tomas
There's a performance of it here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cn7ZW8ts3Y, and one comment neatly says :"The last minute of this piece is amazing. Thomas Tallis invents the wall of sound 400 years in advance of Phil Spector:

Also - Pressed Rat and Warthog by Cream mostly as I listened to it first when I was a kid and it conjured up images of rather jaded and mercenary capitalist corruptions of 'Wind In Willows' type jaunty anthropomorphic characters at the end of their tethers. http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/cream/pressed+rat+warthog_20034203.html for the lyrics, can't find anything on youtube.

Someone mentioned Jesus Blood never Fails by Gavin Bryars in the hauntology section, which is strange and stunning.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnYA0w4cWiE ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53731#Comment_53731
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53731#Comment_53731Tue, 27 May 2008 14:33:56 -0500___________one album never to fall asleep listening to (another being diamanda galas' litanies of satan)I woke up feeling very very cold. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53734#Comment_53734
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53734#Comment_53734Tue, 27 May 2008 14:49:25 -0500Egon
No Forcefield - Ler LeLonde and Brian "Brain" Mantia with some members of the Invisible Scratch Pickles doing some really weird shit. Not sure if I can really classify it as music. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53738#Comment_53738
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53738#Comment_53738Tue, 27 May 2008 14:59:04 -0500mark barter@joncarpenter - there actually is a Hat Fair in Winchester! For years my brother has pleaded off coming up to London for my birthday because he was going to "the Hat Fair" and I thought he was making it up. Bloody hell. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53739#Comment_53739
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53739#Comment_53739Tue, 27 May 2008 15:03:51 -0500Egon

The music isn't as weird as the video. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53758#Comment_53758
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53758#Comment_53758Tue, 27 May 2008 16:48:17 -0500entity411MSBR live in liege belgium 1999This is an example of what I like to call Noisecore, though I don't really know what its called officially, if any of you do then please let me know. If you like this enough to want to explore more, you can download the Koji Tano 10 disc tribute album Here! absolutely free. I can't imagine that people would pay more than a cover charge for this music, plus the cost of a few dozen drinks to help the "appreciation" of it. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53764#Comment_53764
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53764#Comment_53764Tue, 27 May 2008 17:16:46 -0500ThaliaCaptain Beefheart

Was Not Was

Tear Garden

Negativland

Wesley Willis

Some internet favorites:El Chombo

Samwell ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53769#Comment_53769
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53769#Comment_53769Tue, 27 May 2008 18:01:56 -0500ThereminaI can't believe no one brought up the Shaggs yet!

Or Shooby Taylor:

Barnyard Dadaist composer Adrian Munsey, as blogged on Coilhouse:

Songs In the Key of Z is a MUST OWN for everyone here. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53773#Comment_53773
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53773#Comment_53773Tue, 27 May 2008 18:26:12 -0500chris ghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8291t_3COzo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6BXEFDzfI ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53786#Comment_53786
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53786#Comment_53786Tue, 27 May 2008 19:44:30 -0500NeverWandererThe Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53800#Comment_53800
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53800#Comment_53800Tue, 27 May 2008 21:43:38 -0500JP Valdecantos
@Thalia: Love the Tear Garden! And Almost every Edward Ka-spel project. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53804#Comment_53804
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53804#Comment_53804Tue, 27 May 2008 23:01:43 -0500zoem
A Storm of Drones" - It is basically what you'd expect - very dark noises, dark and droning and waving. In and of itself it wasn't tremendously strange, though quite unsettling, as I recall. But then I left it in the cd changer and accidentally listened to on acid. Scary as fuck in that circumstance. Don't do drugs, kids. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53829#Comment_53829
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53829#Comment_53829Wed, 28 May 2008 01:41:19 -0500Lazarus99Is Laibach those guys who do hardcore German covers of Beatles songs? ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53831#Comment_53831
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53831#Comment_53831Wed, 28 May 2008 02:18:04 -0500___________their approach is similar to the residents covers. and they make the whole cover version thing better for it. Life would be incredibly dull if all covers sounded like the original, no? ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53832#Comment_53832
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53832#Comment_53832Wed, 28 May 2008 02:18:29 -0500liquidcowThe Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53869#Comment_53869
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53869#Comment_53869Wed, 28 May 2008 07:57:01 -0500freontripAs far as the weirdest music I've heard, let's go ahead and slap Terre Thaemlitz's Means From an End up and hope it sticks. The title track's simultaneously haunting and dissonant, and so far I haven't found anyone besides me that enjoys it. :) ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53960#Comment_53960
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=53960#Comment_53960Wed, 28 May 2008 13:09:07 -0500MusiMhttp://www.rathergood.com/laibach/ ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=54087#Comment_54087
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=54087#Comment_54087Wed, 28 May 2008 23:23:43 -0500Brent Wilcox
it...

Otherwise, how about Hans Reichel's Shanghaied on Tor Road? The daxophone operetta... ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=54096#Comment_54096
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=54096#Comment_54096Thu, 29 May 2008 01:14:20 -0500Jon WakeHifana ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=54098#Comment_54098
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=54098#Comment_54098Thu, 29 May 2008 02:18:27 -0500St.WangerTalking about interesting Coverswongs by Laibach I really like "War" and "Jesus Christ Superstar".

saw a Crash Worship Live Performance once: ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=54155#Comment_54155
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=54155#Comment_54155Thu, 29 May 2008 11:06:30 -0500Brent Wilcox
Incredibly Strange Music book and CDs is that most of the music they call "strange music" is only done in a strange context or by strange people. The music itself isn't particularly strange.

Today's vote is for the Thai Elephant Orchestra ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=54849#Comment_54849
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=54849#Comment_54849Sat, 31 May 2008 16:44:56 -0500timothypillowcase92The Shaggs,The Residents,Renaldo and the Loaf,Captain Beefheart and his Magic BandPrimusMr. BungleFantomasPere UbuMan Man

I remember going to his show once to support him (a friend), and all the friends I brought with me won't go to shows with me anymore. They're strange.

EDIT: They have a few youtubes, but the quality is really bad... ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=55117#Comment_55117
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=55117#Comment_55117Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:35:06 -0500radianSmoke on the water as it would sound normally, on Titan and on Venus.

Not a strange tune by any stretch, but a strange feeling to hear the differences from (emulating) playing it on different worlds.

Many downloads of the lads here. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263207#Comment_263207
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263207#Comment_263207Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:46:45 -0500DMir.Anda
Toy factory; at this point, I guess that anything from Vital Records might fit the "strange" label.

Sleep Research Facility's Nostromo is a tribute to the spaceship, and meant to sound like it.

I've always found Navicon Torture Technologies to be a challenging listening experience.

Now, for a totally different kind of strange: Normand L'Amour is one the weirdest musical entities in Quebec. He claimed to be spiritually inspired to create songs, which he does, or did, at an alarming rate. Here's an example, which sadly will probably not give its full strangeness if you do not speak french (speaking it the french canadian way will also help). This song is about the fact that there are two sheeps on his lawn, and that they are there because he put them there. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263210#Comment_263210
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263210#Comment_263210Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:37:30 -0500Purple WyrmBuffalo - Stump

Captain Beefheart has been mentioned a fair bit, but this is my favourite of his...

psyche-expanding without a doubt and even better live. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263231#Comment_263231
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263231#Comment_263231Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:05:39 -0500MagicSword!

I think there's plenty of Residents stuff that really bent my mind when I first heard it. Now it's nestled its way in there and I can listen to it, dare I say, comfortably. But at first it was really disquieting.

I don't really like it in comparison to the rest of the album, but here it is. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263263#Comment_263263
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263263#Comment_263263Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:14:25 -0500PaprikaEDIT (Oh man I really should pay more attention, just realised those posts are from years ago. Please insert jokes below about 2008 calling wanting its whatever back)

Today these are the starngest songs I have ever heard. Tomorrow, no doubt they will be different.

Witch Fly in the Air ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263303#Comment_263303
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263303#Comment_263303Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:05:40 -0500nigredo

Rammellzee: It's like Afrika Bambataa & The Soul Sonic Force as produced by El-P / Techno Animal. Lyrics laden with futurism. Biomechanical, earthcrusher digi-hiphop? Not super weird compared to some Kool Keith stuff ( or a lot of other stream-of-consciousness hiphop I could name ), but it's taking me a few listens to really appreciate. Apparently he passed away in June and only ever did one full length album, but was a very influential artist and theoretician behind the scenes. Hope you enjoy it and track down more.

Would Ikonika or Flying Lotus be considered weird in the general scheme of the current glitchhop / mutant dubstep / wonky electronica landscape? ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263322#Comment_263322
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263322#Comment_263322Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:30:47 -0500JShilpetskiAngizia - Schaukelkind ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263362#Comment_263362
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263362#Comment_263362Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:03:53 -0500The_Toxo_Zombie The Laughing Gnome

really its weirdness comes from putting it in the context of the rest of Bowie's career. I mean, what the fuck was he on to think that this was a good idea?

Also seconding @offtandiscord on Nurse With Wound. I think the range of different things that NWW does is what makes it weird, as any one selected track of theirs (his? it is mostly just Stephen Stapleton) is not really representative of their sound.

His version of Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds is perhaps more famous, but I think this is a better performance. You seriously get the feeling that he's completely losing his mind by the end of it. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263367#Comment_263367
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263367#Comment_263367Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:34:11 -0500ErisahBasically, it was a woodwind quintet (assorted saxes and clarinets with an option for flute) that was based around a main melody that was played as a round. Most of the harmonies were minor 7ths, and it changed time signature like three times. One of those times it went to 7/4. It was based loosely on a blues scale (the key signature also went through a few phases), and unless you've played clarinet you probably won't get what I mean when I say there was a hell of a lot of little finger work involved, not to mention some hellish register jumps.

It actually sounded pretty interesting when we got it happening, (I thought) but it definitely wasn't a crowd pleaser. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263372#Comment_263372
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263372#Comment_263372Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:54:49 -0500The_Toxo_ZombieYes. Inflict is a good word for that song. Really though most songs from that early album (which sadly, The Laughing Gnome is not on) are just plain strange. She's Got Medals, We Are Hungry Men, ect, could all go on this list. Only the sincerity of Bowie's delivery saves really saves them from being totally unmemorable novelty kitsch. We Are Hungry Men

also

Hell yes the Shat. Why not keep the image of him climaxing next to a blue lollipop static for the whole song? ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263515#Comment_263515
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263515#Comment_263515Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:05:56 -0500Brent WilcoxThe Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263524#Comment_263524
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263524#Comment_263524Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:53:17 -0500Erisah ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263535#Comment_263535
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263535#Comment_263535Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:35:29 -0500tapheadI play in this and I still can't understand what the hell we're about:

Iannis Xenakis. I love his music, but I have no idea how the process for thinking something like this up goes.

In a slightly similar vein, whatever Scott Walker is doing nowadays goes off on some mindboggling tangents. Bear in mind the context here is, supposedly, pop music.

]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263569#Comment_263569
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263569#Comment_263569Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:54:37 -0500Nygaard
]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263570#Comment_263570
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263570#Comment_263570Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:54:49 -0500nigredoXenakis is one of those composers whose work you cannot really approach without some knowledge of his politics, because that's what ultimately lead to the formation of his compositional practices. He fought against the Italians in Greece, and after the English took over from the axis powers and supported the Monarchists, he lost an eye and part of his jaw in battle against them, having joined the communist resistance. He later escaped to France where he lived until his death. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263573#Comment_263573
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263573#Comment_263573Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:06:07 -0500celanThe Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263576#Comment_263576
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263576#Comment_263576Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:11:44 -0500nigredoI love Messiaen's music. The organ stuff, the orchestral works, anything. His work was a big eye-opener for me, too. It also made me realise how much later avant-garde music, from modern composition to jazz and beyond, has been influenced by him. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263592#Comment_263592
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263592#Comment_263592Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:24:41 -0500Verissimus

I love this stuff: the sho, Japanese mouth organ. Thing looks a bit like Sauron's pointy helmet... ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263609#Comment_263609
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263609#Comment_263609Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:37:07 -0500IG

By the by, I love Venetian Snares and cant shut up about how fantastic his stuff is. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263622#Comment_263622
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263622#Comment_263622Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:29:58 -0500keyofsilence

Four-hour long solo piano piece reputed for how technically demanding and frighteningly obtuse it is?

Edited to add music: This might not be all that strange, but Mongolian folk-rock band Altan Urag do a mean take on Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto with traditional Mongolian instruments (excluding the drum kit). Plus they have Giger alien heads on their fiddles, rather than the traditional horse heads. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263988#Comment_263988
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=263988#Comment_263988Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:08:58 -0500The_Toxo_ZombieThe Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=264014#Comment_264014
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=264014#Comment_264014Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:33:11 -0500johnplatt<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yuSrsGzhD9U?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yuSrsGzhD9U?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=264026#Comment_264026
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=264026#Comment_264026Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:30:29 -0500costa_kTHROBBING GRISTLE it blew my mind, and honestly it's still the standard that weird shit I listen to aspires to hit. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=264088#Comment_264088
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=264088#Comment_264088Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:56:52 -0500hankEVIL BOY (official) from Die Antwoord on Vimeo.

I.. Uh.. just watch it. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=264112#Comment_264112
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=264112#Comment_264112Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:57:31 -0500Aurora BorealisYou can't just post a link to the wiki if there's GREAT live footage to be found on Youtube!

are good examples of what he does. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=267042#Comment_267042
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=267042#Comment_267042Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:24:19 -0500Theremina

Apologies if this track has already been posted in the past, but can anyone tell me how and what the FUCK these guys used to create that glorious "NNYYYEEEEOOOOWWWWRRRRRMM" noise at the very end of the song? (from roughly 1:31 to 1:36)

-ted ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=281315#Comment_281315
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=281315#Comment_281315Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:18:55 -0600Yaboo ChingoaThis has an early Residents feel to it, and the whacked-out redneck lyrics just add an additional level of demented delight.

George Coleman here goes on a very odd crime spree.

Jascha Ephraim was a guy who lived in Asheville (NC) for a while. He did some wild live performances back in the day.

These days, it takes a lot of perversion to shock me. That said, Joe Aufricht is fucked in the head.

More to come soon, including more Johnny Future and Rudy Schwartz Project. ]]>
The Strangest Music You Ever Heardhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=281435#Comment_281435
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=2374&Focus=281435#Comment_281435Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:08:56 -0600Christov